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flowersofnight wrote:
I think it's a good topic, so I'm not going to lock it.

I just finished with "Tokugawa Religion" and now I'm looking for a new book. My sister gave me "Spoken Here" but it sucked so I quit halfway through.

(tip to people posting: you should make Amazon links so we can read more about the books you're reading)


You should read "Dead Sleep" by Greg Iles. It's not the best writing in the world, it's kinda predictable, but it was still dandy.
 

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Catch-22. I tried to read it before, but I didn't have time, so I'm starting over :|
Also I'm struggling through the Kuroyume biography/sort of photobook 夢中占レ夢ヲ(むちゅうゆめをうらなふ)

That's one of my favourite books ever. It made me laugh during almost all of the pages. I couldn't' stop laughing

For example : You're wasting your time," Doc Daneeka was forced to tell him.
"Can't you ground someone's who's crazy?"

"Oh sure, I have to. There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy."

"Then why don't you ground me. Ask Clevinger."

"Clevinger? Where is Clevinger? You find Clevinger and I'll ask him."

"Then ask any of the others. They'll tell you how crazy I am."

"They're crazy."

"Then why don't you ground them?"

"Why don't they ask me to ground them?"

"Because they're crazy, that's why."

"Of course they're crazy," Doc Daneeka replied. "I just told you they're crazy didn't I? And you can't let crazy people decide whether you're crazy or not can you?"





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Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is Orr crazy?"
"He sure is," Doc Daneeka said.

"Can you ground him?"

"I sure can but first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule."

"Then why doesn't he ask you to?"

"Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he's had. Sure I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to."

"That's all he has to do to be grounded?"

"That's all. Let him ask me."

"And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked.

"No, then I can't ground him."

"You mean there's a catch?"

"Sure there is a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
 

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Kyuketsuki wrote:
I'm currently re-reading Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice. The movie has next to nothing to do with the book, btw. The movie was terrible. ::bleh::
I agree with this; the movie was bad.

I am reading Antigone by Sophocles.
 

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I agree with this; the movie was bad.

I am reading Antigone by Sophocles.

Ooh, I loved Oedipus Rex. That's the only one I've ever read of those stories, though.
 

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Amatsu~Naraku wrote:
flowersofnight wrote:
I think it's a good topic, so I'm not going to lock it.

I just finished with "Tokugawa Religion" and now I'm looking for a new book. My sister gave me "Spoken Here" but it sucked so I quit halfway through.

(tip to people posting: you should make Amazon links so we can read more about the books you're reading)

but i ended up getting the da vinci code [WHICH SUCKS!!! SO MUCH FAKE PROPAGANDA CRAP]

lol. What's this propaganda crap you speak of? ::gaku::
I thought it was good, and I thought Angels and Demons as really good too! I might even like it better!:P
 

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Firstly, The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's...interesting, but I'm finding it a bit jagged at the moment. I suspect as I carry on I'll see the continuation. But I like the Philosphy in it. ^^

Please stick with Bulgakov, evespikey, because the novel is well worth it. Normally I don't go for stuff that features a large anthropomorphic cat as one of the main characters (besides Chiyo-chan's father in Azumanga Daioh, that is ^_^), but Bulgakov is so exacting and detailed in his narration that even the weirdest episodes are vivid and believable. Are you reading it in English? If so, there is only one dependable translation: Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's Vintage edition. Throw out all others. And if you find that you like Bulgakov, I strongly recommend Fyodor Sologub's The Little Demon (1907). That book totally rocks! XD (Both of these Russian authors are infinitely preferable to the ridiculously overrated and turgid Dostoevsky, imho.)



And Tess of the D'urby...wotsits. I can't spell it. :P Which I'm finding...ok. I like the writing style in it.


Tess of the D'Urbervilles is Hardy's best work, imho. ^_^ It's my favorite novel after the one that navate is currently reading (David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus), and I have successfully persuaded several of my friends and family to read it. Strangely, reactions seem to fall along gender-lines, with males sympathizing with Tess and females finding her weak and even annoying -- a point of view which I find incomprehensible frankly, being a Tess-sympathesizer myself. In any case: try to avoid reading spoilers, because the conclusion is -- powerful.



Finally, Language Truth and Logic by A.J.Ayer for Philosophy. This one I prefer out of all the previous ones. Because it's like a textbook- you learn, but don't realize you're learning because it's fun. *l*

Was this an assigned text? The book, which was highly influential at one time (before Karl Popper exploded its central thesis, the verifiability principle), is now on the fast track to being an historical curiosity. But it -is- well written. Ayer was a direct philosophical descendent of the British empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume) and all of them wrote in plain, un-professorial English prose. Ayer gets points for emulating them, imho. He also gets points for championing phenomenalism against Kant and all odds for most of his life, despite the fact that he was surely wrong and that Kant was surely right. ;) But I like a guy who sounds out is own position to the very bottom.

My current reading: Theophile Gautier's exotic fantasies and two books of the late British author Simon Raven -- The Islands of Sorrow and Remember Your Grammar and Other Haunted Stories. These latter two persuaded me to seek out every last one of Raven's novels, and now I've a stack of them to read at some point as well. Also, Paul Gravett's Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics.
 

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@ j-aesthete: I'm definitely sticking with Bulgakov...and it's an English translation, yeah, lol. I don't think it's the one you mentioned though. :-* I'll try out The Little Demon though, sounds good!

And as for Tess, well I know the story. And it definitely interested me, but obviously I'll put off reviews until I've finished. My dad is a Hardy fan, I'll ask him about his view, because that male/female divide is sure interesting. The plot seemed to have more depth and suit my interest than some of his others.

Yeah, Ayer was a set text. I've read up on the previous empiricists and I know his background. I know his central idea was full of holes but I just find it intreiging how he seemed to be so certain at the time that he had solved major philosophical problems, and I'm curious to hear it in his words. It's definitely an easier text to digest than some others- Descartes for one. @_@
 

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I finished "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice just some minutes ago.

*__________*

Hell I love this book.
 

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"What is human?" by someone weird.

I really think that this book is trying to wake me back to reality :shock: *rips pages*
 

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I am now reading one of my joulrnals from last year.
LOL
I'm ranting on a bunch of pages about "OMG I HOPE DIRU COMES TO AMERICA AND I HOPE I CAN GO" etc
and muahhahha! they came! and I went! and I MET KYO! (and toshiya and shinya at the meet and greet) skjdhgfklj!
 

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I'm reading It by Stephen King for the 7th time now... I read it every year once xD
 

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I'm reading It by Stephen King for the 7th time now... I read it every year once xD

I read that once in 7th grade. It's a good book, but I think Stephen King is kinda.....they make him seem alot better than he is. I really want to read the graveyard or no..pet cemetary. that's it. I want toread that one by him.
 

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Daikirai wrote:
I'm reading It by Stephen King for the 7th time now... I read it every year once xD

It was a good one. Stephen King books never scare me while I'm reading them, but after I'm done I get really freaked out.
 

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holylampposts wrote:
Daikirai wrote:
I'm reading It by Stephen King for the 7th time now... I read it every year once xD

It was a good one. Stephen King books never scare me while I'm reading them, but after I'm done I get really freaked out.

My mum siad she could never finish "The Stand" because she couldn't figure out what was real and what was fake at a cirtain point. I'm like "Right, okay mum.."
but then again, I have no reason to talk because this line from this book series keeps popping into my head at odd moments and I get the weirdest feeling "Now you know your enemy. They don't want you this time, they want me. This is my seppuku"
sjkghlkd
FUCKERS
 

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Akane wrote:
Daikirai wrote:
I'm reading It by Stephen King for the 7th time now... I read it every year once xD

I read that once in 7th grade. It's a good book, but I think Stephen King is kinda.....they make him seem alot better than he is. I really want to read the graveyard or no..pet cemetary. that's it. I want toread that one by him.

It is the only book by Stephen King that I like xD~. The other books are kinda wanna-be horror. More amusing than scary, because it's so cheesy.

holylampposts wrote:
It was a good one. Stephen King books never scare me while I'm reading them, but after I'm done I get really freaked out.

Clowns freak the fuck out of me... that's why I love this book ::squee:: (I always think there's a clown hiding behind my TV or in my closet ::shifty:: scary... scaaary... even Közi scares me!)
 

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Akane wrote:
Fuck frankensetin. I had to read that for my summer reading project. -slaughter-
Oh, DAMN THAT ABOMINATION.
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But seriously, I've liked what I've read so far. I think it's interesting; I like picturing this monster that speaks with poetry and seeing how different he is from the iconic 'Frankenstein' that has sewn scars, green skin, and bolts comming from his neck.

Maybe I'm a weirdo. ::kisaki::
 

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Ah...I like this thread...
Priss wrote:
Amatsu~Naraku wrote:
but i ended up getting the da vinci code [WHICH SUCKS!!! SO MUCH FAKE PROPAGANDA CRAP]
lol. What's this propaganda crap you speak of? ::gaku::
I thought it was good, and I thought Angels and Demons as really good too! I might even like it better!:P
I thought Da Vinci Code was rather captivating, as I've never been interested at all in "religion" and yet I read the book from cover to cover within a few hours. It was exciting, false as it may be in facts...Although, I could also agree with Priss that Angels and Demons is even better.

A few days ago, I read Maid Marian by Elsa Watson (yes, Robin Hood stories from childhood!) and it was very good. Although, there was in fact, very little about Robin Hood himself...but it was interesting to read from the female point of view for a change.
 
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